House has relented to interviewing potential team members, but he's doing it his way. He called in all 40 applicants for the open three positions on his team and puts them to the test in a Darwinian trial period. As he drills the fellows and arbitrarily fires some along the way, an Air Force fighter pilot named Greta asks him to secretly treat her. She is a candidate for NASA's astronaut training program. House sets the applicants against one another to help treat the pilot with an unusual neurological disorder.
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House systematically begins eliminating his new team candidates, until he is approached by a fighter pilot named Greta ( Essence Atkins ), a candidate for NASA 's astronaut training program. Greta suffers from a neurological disorder, where she converts sounds to visual images. Knowing NASA will reject any possibility of her becoming an astronaut if they knew of her problem, Greta begs House to treat her in secret. Meanwhile, House is ruffled when he thinks he sees Cameron, Chase and Foreman in the hospital hallways. Final diagnosis: Von Hippel–Lindau disease